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and methodical, in the other fresh and interesting, and the facts inci- 

 dentally brought out, of scarcely less value than the principal state- 

 ment. An examination of a paper in the present volume on wheat 

 from Oneida county, every act almost of whose society is worthy of 

 imitation, will illustrate the writer's position. 



In the extract from the Oneida county report, pp. 244, 245, Mr. 

 Skinner has contributed a paper of great value to those growlers of 

 wheat who live in the district infested by the wheat-fly, and to all 

 who are liable to have their crops struck with rust. Had he confined 

 himself to the usual printed form of that society, both these interest- 

 ing facts communicated by him would have been lost to the farming 

 public. From no society is there received more indubitable evi- 

 dence that these premiums are awarded to those only who actually 

 raise the crops that they profess to raise, yet their printed state- 

 ments usually contain little beyond the bald and naked facts of the 

 amount of the crop and its cost. 



J. B. NOTT. 



Agricultural Rooms, 

 May, 4, 1846. 



